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Unknown Lameron Tuesday January 01, 2013 @04:02AM
from the even-gnome3-is-more-liked dept.

New submitter NettiWelho writes with even more bad news for Microsoft. From the article: "Windows 8 uptake has slipped behind Vista's at the same point after its release. Windows 8 online usage share is around 1.6% of all Windows PCs, which is less than the 2.2% share that Windows Vista commanded at the same two-month mark after release. Net Applications monitors operating system usage by recording OS version for around 40,000 sites it monitors for clients. The slowdown for Windows 8 adoption is a bad sign for Microsoft, who experienced great success with the release of Windows 7. Data was measured up to the 22nd of December, so there is still time by the end of the month for Windows 8 to claim a higher percentage of the user base."

1. The default UI was Metro.2. They took my start button away.3. Multi Monitor support was changed (Task bar now goes across all monitors).

MS's extensive market research proved that no one uses the start button, and that most people find multiple windows confusing. Your complaints are essentially analogous to those crazy people who complained about the loss of the command line in 1993.

MS was right to get rid of the command line in 1995 (notice how no other modern operating system has a text or script interface) and they're right to get rid of multi-application and mouse support in 2012. In another two decades, you'll see they were right. They're thinking so far ahead of the game, the rest of us don't even recognize the game they're playing. You need to get with the program.

More likely, the phrase was originally "countless numbers of times", which is a proper english expression, and on proofreading he double clicked "numbers" and pressed delete, forgetting about the "of" that was there.